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Twitter: Years After the Alphabet Acquisition

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Re: Twitter: Years After the Alphabet Acquisition

#11

Post by mschuster91 »

melted wrote: post #9
archlight wrote: post #3

I really hope google will buy twitter so it can put back real time search in twitter stream a few years ago as an experiment.

I hope they buy it for a different reason: so they could drain this useless sea of vapidity and narcissism, and drive the company into the ground within 3 years tops. Or maybe Dorsey will do it on his own, who knows. Twitter's chance of death goes up dramatically if it's not a standalone entity.

> Twitter's chance of death goes up dramatically if it's not a standalone entity.

Currently the whole TWTR management is looking to please short-term "investor" and "speculator" scum.

Companies don't exist for 3-month intervals and maximum gains, they exist for creating LONG TIME wealth (and that's the mistake Capitalism does).

Existence inside a huge, rock-solid company frees management from the cognitive and financial round to be hyper-effective for capitalists instead for their users (who actually create the work that makes Twitter exist).

Re: Twitter: Years After the Alphabet Acquisition

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Post by wslh »

This is an unreal post: "When Alphabet bought Twitter back in June 2016 for almost $29 billion", you can easily check Twitter valuation at $10 billion here: https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ATWTR&ei=gHO_VpH9GsnB... so... spending 3X the public market valuation will be crazy.

And speaking about science fiction, what will Alphabet/Google do to turn around Twitter?

Also the posts saying: "I quit Facebook" are nonsense, how many people around you removed themselves from FB? Most probably, very few.

Re: Twitter: Years After the Alphabet Acquisition

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Post by melted »

mschuster91 wrote: post #11
melted wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hope they buy it for a different reason: so they could drain this useless sea of vapidity and narcissism, and drive the company into the ground within 3 years tops. Or maybe Dorsey will do it on his own, who knows. Twitter's chance of death goes up dramatically if it's not a standalone entity.

> Twitter's chance of death goes up dramatically if it's not a standalone entity. Currently the whole TWTR management is looking to please short-term "investor" and "speculator" scum. Companies don't exist for 3-month intervals and maximum gains, they exist for creating LONG TIME wealth (and that's the mistake Capitalism does). Existence inside a huge, rock-solid company frees management from the cognitive and financ…

It also frees the management from "fear of God", which results in ridiculous investments and initiatives, accelerated (and unnecessary) hiring, proliferation of middle management, empire building, politics, etc, etc.

Re: Twitter: Years After the Alphabet Acquisition

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Post by orf »

wslh wrote: post #12

This is an unreal post: "When Alphabet bought Twitter back in June 2016 for almost $29 billion", you can easily check Twitter valuation at $10 billion here: https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ATWTR&ei=gHO_VpH9GsnB... so... spending 3X the public market valuation will be crazy. And speaking about science fiction, what will Alphabet/Google do to turn around Twitter? Also the posts saying: "I quit Facebook" are nons…

> how many people around you removed themselves from FB?

Almost everyone, it's becoming a ghost town on Facebook proper. Whatsapp/messenger/instagram not at all, but few of my 300+ friends really use it that much any more.

Re: Twitter: Years After the Alphabet Acquisition

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Post by nostrademons »

wslh wrote: post #12

This is an unreal post: "When Alphabet bought Twitter back in June 2016 for almost $29 billion", you can easily check Twitter valuation at $10 billion here: https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ATWTR&ei=gHO_VpH9GsnB... so... spending 3X the public market valuation will be crazy. And speaking about science fiction, what will Alphabet/Google do to turn around Twitter? Also the posts saying: "I quit Facebook" are nons…

I think he's assuming the market will turn around, or at least Twitter will turn around enough that it's an attractive acquisition target.

Re: Twitter: Years After the Alphabet Acquisition

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Post by wslh »

orf wrote: post #17
wslh wrote: post #12

This is an unreal post: "When Alphabet bought Twitter back in June 2016 for almost $29 billion", you can easily check Twitter valuation at $10 billion here: https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ATWTR&ei=gHO_VpH9GsnB... so... spending 3X the public market valuation will be crazy. And speaking about science fiction, what will Alphabet/Google do to turn around Twitter? Also the posts saying: "I quit Facebook" are nons…

> how many people around you removed themselves from FB? Almost everyone, it's becoming a ghost town on Facebook proper. Whatsapp/messenger/instagram not at all, but few of my 300+ friends really use it that much any more.

> Almost everyone,

And what do they do? I mean, are they distributed into many different occupations?

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